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Wednesday, September 04, 2024

The drug kingpin, who was convicted in the murder of a federal law enforcement officer in 1990, shared an attorney with Donald Trump Jr. He had his life sentence commuted by President Donald Trump on the last day of Trump's term.

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Putin's bitch sure does love cop killers.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-09-03 03:02 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

It's painful when I have to explain to Young liberals that not every black person in prison is Nelson Mandela

#2 | Posted by Tor at 2024-09-03 03:06 PM | Reply

Only the best people.

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-09-03 03:30 PM | Reply

"strangled" in a HL sounds like murder.

#4 | Posted by ichiro at 2024-09-03 04:39 PM | Reply

Additional background info:

All Trump's Recidivists

It may have taken no more than ten days for Trump's pardon recipients to start criming again. That's unsurprising: For the people close to Trump (including Bernie Kerik, who played a key role in Rudy Giuliani's cultivation of the Big Lie), he often pardoned them so that they could put their skills to work for him.

Trump wants to fearmonger about the very small percentage of migrants who turn to crime.

But there's a far higher percentage of people whom Trump plucked from prisons (or spared from prison entirely) who turned back to crime.

Which is not surprising. These are Trump's people, after all.

www.emptywheel.net

#5 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-09-03 05:44 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Just a reminder of another accused wifebeater whose prison sentence Trump communted:

Police Arrest Loan Shark Whose Sentence Was Commuted By Donald Trump

A convicted loan shark and drug smuggler whose sentence was commuted by Donald Trump has been arrested for assaulting his wife and father-in-law.

The father of 41-year-old Jonathan Braun had hired Trump's impeachment lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, for legal advice on commutation.

In January 2021, just before leaving the White House, Trump issued 143 pardons and commutations, including a commutation for Braun.

Braun was released after serving five years of a 13-year-sentence for drug importation and money laundering.

www.newsweek.com

#6 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-09-03 06:23 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

How much money changed hands and who got it?

#7 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-09-04 06:31 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Trump was literally selling pardons at the end, and he had so many other scandals that it wasn't even mentioned in the news.

#8 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-09-04 12:58 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

His release was personally lobbied for by Alice Johnson, criminal reform activist.

Alice Johnson is the non-violent drug offender that was granted clemency by Trump after he was lobbied by Kim Kardashian.

#9 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-09-04 01:55 PM | Reply

Go ahead and contact Alice to let her know how evil she is.

#10 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-09-04 01:55 PM | Reply

How did Kim Kardashian find out about Alice Johnsons plight?

Viral youtube video, so she became an activist and used her fame positively.

#11 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-09-04 01:57 PM | Reply

So trump has a thousand willie hortons?

#12 | Posted by Tor at 2024-09-04 02:02 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Go ahead and contact Alice to let her know how evil she is.

#10 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG

Why?

Donald Trumps signature is on BOTH pardons.

#13 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-09-04 04:48 PM | Reply

Yes that's how people got pardons from Trump. You went to him and you personally lobbied for them with a sob story otherwise Trump wouldn't even know their name nor care.

#14 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-09-05 08:53 AM | Reply

But going by the other posters suggesting this pardon was bought, I'm sure you can figure out where I was going with that.

Where did Alice get that money if there was money because we definitely know there was money involved right? And we're not just being -------- running on low information?

#15 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-09-05 08:54 AM | Reply

"Yes that's how people got pardons from Trump."

Does not actually matter HOW they got Trumpy to pardon them.

Trump's signature is on the pardons. So Trump is responsible.

Now ... imagine if Obama or Biden had signed those pardons (for whatever reason) and one of them went on to strangle someone.

It would be front page at the top of the hour and amplified on Fixed Spews everyday ten times a day for weeks.

#16 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-09-05 01:09 PM | Reply

Does not actually matter HOW they got Trumpy to pardon them.

#16 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-09-05 01:09 PM | Reply | Flag:

apparently it does

Trump was literally selling pardons at the end

#8 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-09-04 12:58 PM | Reply | Flag:

How much money changed hands and who got it?

#7 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-09-04 06:31 AM | Reply | Flag:

#17 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-09-05 03:19 PM | Reply

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